hello! I need bible help please

I am doing a talk about persevering when you lose, to teenagers. The joy of losing, kind ofI need to slot in some christianity. very light touch. Just kind of " christians look to god to give them strength" etc.

ALl the stuff i have found is quite hard. Can anyone help with just a teaching or Bible ref please?

you can if you link it to the Bible. I was not saying do not use the bible, but use something that will illustrate the message. if it is only for a job interview and not to real teenagers it does not matter at all as much. if it ws for job interview, I would be looking t something even more contemporary to use with teenagers.

you have not said what age teenagers you are aiming at. there is a big difference between 13 and 18

but they will have read harry potter. it could be very powerful to make the link to fiction...especially if you use a clip of the film, which I have not seen so don't know if it is any good. get them to draw the links.

alternatively use lion the witch and the wardrobe.

you have not said which age group you are talking to, nor their background.

Joseph, you know the one with the coat. His brothers sold him into slavery, but he did well and his master promoted him. then his master's wife accused him of trying it on with her and he ended up in jail. Then he interpreted one of pharaohs dreams and ended up pharaohs right hand man. The story is in the Genesis.

actually, the harry potter thing is not such a bad idea. book 7 harry has to be killed as he is the 6th horcrux. it seemed like he had lost, but by dying it mde it possbile for voldemort to be defeated and killed. sound familiar?

Either is good, Job lost all of his children (6+), his home and all his belongings in horrendous 'natural' disasters, pretty much all his friends turned against him as did his wife for a time, and becomes horrendously, painfully ill (all for a celestial bet that was so out of his control, he did nothing wrong but what happens to him changes how other's see him and he never knows of why it is happening) while Paul's is mostly down to persecution by other people's perception of his actual actions and their perception of his faith and the whole why everything is going wrong is a bit more there. So it depends on what kind of lesson you're going for.

If you want perseverance, look at the book of Job. For a light a touch "In the Book of Job, Job who is a prophet in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, it shows how when losing everything, in circumstances completely beyond ones control, everything out of control but oneself, one can choose to listen to others or follow ones own self and persevere".